Baseball Splits Twinbill with Sacred Heart

HARTFORD, Conn. – The late innings saw
plenty of action Saturday as Harvard and Sacred Heart split a
twinbill played in Hartford, Conn. The Pioneers took game one, 1-0,
before Harvard rallied to take the nightcap by a score of 3-2.

In the first game, Sacred Heart (6-11) scored an unearned run in
the bottom of the sixth and won the game in the next inning as
Steve Tedesco threw Brent Suter out at home plate with the possible
trying run. In the second game, Harvard’s (4-11) Kyle Larrow
drove home the eventual game-winning run in the sixth inning while
Will Keuper recorded the final four outs to earn the save.

Harvard put runners in scoring position with one out in both the
fourth and fifth innings. Marcus Way doubled with one out in the
fourth and advanced on a groundout but was stranded. In the fifth,
Suter singled with one out and two batters later, the Crimson had
the bases loaded following an error and a walk. Both times, Ray
Corcoran worked his way out of trouble to keep the game scoreless.

Sacred Heart, meanwhile, could do little against Conner Hulse.
The Pioneers got just two runners into scoring position through the
first five innings and then again in the sixth as Mike Drowne
doubled with two outs on a ball that got lost in the sun in left
field. Tedesco then reached on a critical error, scoring Drowne
from second base with the unearned run.

Mike Korevec came on the close out the game but Suter led off
with a single and Kyle Larrow worked a full count walk to turn over
the top of Harvard’s order. Jeff Reynolds dropped down a
perfect bunt that turned into a hit, loading the bases. Sam
Franklin lined a shot to left field, which Tedesco flagged down and
then gunned down Suter trying to score from third for a key double
play. Koreve then got Albright to ground out the end the game.

Hulse was the tough luck loser, allowing four hits while
striking out six and not walking a batter.

In game two, SHU jumped on top with a run in the third inning as
a two-out single from Tedesco was followed by an RBI double from
Rob Griffith against Way who was making his second start of the
season.

Harvard finally got on the board in the fourth when Tyler
Albright launched the first pitch of the inning over the right
field wall against SHU starter Troy Scribner.

In the fifth, Harvard put runners on second and third with two
outs but Scribner dug down and got Albright swinging on a 3-2 pitch
for the final out.

In the sixth, Way and Sean O’Hara started with singles and
Dan Zailskas followed with a full count walk to again get Scribner
in trouble and force the home side to go to its bullpen in favor of
Chris Dionisio. After inducing a groundout, Dionisio served up a
Dillon O’Neil single to left. Larrow followed with a
sacrifice fly to make it 3-1 although Dionisio avoided further
trouble by getting the third out with two runners in scoring
position.

In the bottom of the sixth, Chris Whittemore made it a one-run
game when he took 1-2 pith to center field to score a pinch runner
with two outs. That brought Will Keuper out of the Crimson bullpen
and the lefty got a strikeout to get out of the inning.

In the bottom of the seventh, Mike Olszyk doubled to lead off
but Keuper ended the game by getting the next three batters, two by
strikeouts for the save.

Way went 5.2 innings, allowing five hits while striking out four
batters t pick up the victory (1-1). Offensively, he had two hits
as did O’Hara and O’Neil.